Happy June Dairy Month

June is the month for dads, grads and dairy ads.
Ads? That's right. June is National Dairy Month!

How is the rest of the world celebrating? Today Japan
will announce its 19th case of Mad Cow Disease. Today
Scotland will learn that 50 persons may have been
exposed to Mad Cow Disease through skin grafts. A
school in Canada (Alberta) is considering banning milk
because two of its students suffer potentially deadly
allergic reactions when exposed to bovine proteins. In
China, powdered milk continues to be removed from
shelves because of an excessive iodine content.

In America, the average liter of milk contains 319
million pus cells. so, in honor of June being National
Pus Month, we have a suggested motto for milk producers
to replace their absurd "Gotmilk?" campaign: Have you
had your billion (pus cells) today?

Get ready for milkmustachmania. An enormous campaign
is about to be waged. Make no mistake about it. This
is war. You are the intended target and the victim.

Make no mistake about what is coming. Your senses
are about to be bombarded by the well financed
and brilliantly planned dairy invasion.

Be prepared to read thousands of pro-dairy articles.
Next Wednesday's New York Times food section will probably
feature ice creams or cheeses. It happens every year
about this time. Be prepared to see thousands more
ads in newspapers and magazines, placed there by
those who induce the media with dollars to promote
their products.

You'll see nightly TV news stories extolling the
virtues of milk. You will be told that milk cures
halitosis and zits. You'll see happy cows grazing in
fields, and baseball players sporting milk mustaches.

They (the National Fluid Milk Processors Promotion
Board) have been working for many months, planning
their media assault upon our sensibilities.

Children will soon be leaving schools for summer
vacations, and the forced milk consumption program
will take a break until those kids return next
September. The dairy industry solution? Feed them
more concentrated milk products over the summer.
Production at cheese and ice cream plants shifts
into overtime mode as liquid milk consumption
decreases.

Have a happy dairy-free month!

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

{Shhhhhh...} Major Censored Milk Story

This week (May 27, 2005), the Chinese government
discovered that Nestles brand milk powder contains
unsafe levels of iodine, and immediately that the
dangerous product be removed from market shelves.
The milk powder was used as an infant formula mix,
and marketed under the name, "Jin Pai Growing 3-Milk
Powder." American health officials are faced with the
same challenge, but refuse to take action.

What are the consequences of ingesting excess iodine?
It has been established that the thyroid gland is regulated
by iodine metabolism. Scientific studies have linked the
consumption of high amounts of iodine to increased risk of
thyroid cancer.

Virtually all American adults over age 50 have one or more
thyroid tumors, according to an autopsy study published in
the New York Times on November 8, 1994, page C-1.

These tumors are usually go undetected, as they are not
clinically diagnosed, but they are there upon histological
examination of thyroid tissue upon autopsy. The autopsy study
was performed on thousands of premature deaths (such as
automobile accident victims) and the result was shockingly
unexpected.

Dairy farmers use iodine rubs to sanitize cow's udders
before and after milking. The iodine drips into the milk
and is then processed for human consumption. Milk in the
New York area was analyzed (Winston Labs, 1998) and found
to contain hazardous levels of iodine averaging between 20
and 30 times the safe level. Ten pounds of iodine-rich
milk are required to produce one pound of cheese. Twelve
pounds of the same iodine-rich milk are used to produce
just one pint of ice cream. Over 21 pounds of milk are
needed to produce one pound of butter. Seven pounds of
milk are required to make one pound of whole milk powder,
while eleven pounds of milk are used to make one pound
of non-fat milk powder. Concentrated milk products are
concentrated iodine products.

Consumers should immediately stop from eating iodine-rich
dairy products. Dairymen must immediately cease from using
iodine to neutralize bacteria on cow udders. American health
regulators (FDA, USDA) should become as equally vigilant
as their Chinese counterparts.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Blueprint for Milk Terrorism

The front page of today's New York Daily News
contains a photograph of a Florida doctor who
plotted to start an Al Queda terrorism training
facility in the United States. Page-1 headline:

"BUSTED-Feds Say Two Plotted to Start Terror
Training Camp"

Although the same story did not make the front page
of the New York Times, a Page-16 Times editorial asks:

"Got Toxic Milk?"

Today's New York Times (Monday, May 30, 2005)
describes a way for terrorists to easily kill more
than one hundred thousand Americans with Botulism
toxin by applying:

"The beauty of botulism."

The Times suggests that some botulism would survive
pasteurization, and just one-millionth of a gram
could be enough to kill an adult.

The Times editorial further suggests:

"We must invest in prevention."

"In the hands of a terrorist, a dairy is just as
dangerous as a chemical factory or nuclear plant,
and voluntary guidelines are not commensurate with
the severity of the threat. We need strict laws...
to ensure that our milk supply is vigilantly guarded
from cow to consumer."

"The dairy industry should improve pasteurization so
that it is far more potent..."

"Trucks have to stop to be tested..." (Milk costs
would increase by a factor of only 1 percent).

Milk pasteurization has never worked, and that is
well known to the dairy industry. Before a consumer
drinks milk from a carton, that milk has been
pasteurized an average of three times. Bacteria
continues to grow, and millions of people have
been sickened by consuming milk and dairy products.
Add botulism toxin to the list of E. coli, salmonella,
paratuberculosis, clostridium, and staphlococcus. Some
unsuspecting Americans have been poisoned to death by
the so-called good guys who know what potential hazards
are contained within cow's milk. Imagine what a
"motivated" bad guy could do by driving one milk truck
to a processing plant? Imagine what a fleet of drivers
could accomplish?

The New York Times should be patted on the back (or
kicked in the butt) for going far beyond their motto of
"All the News That's Fit to Print." With today's editorial,
they've ventured into the territory of "All of the potential
horror-incidents that are induced to terrorize an already
shell-shocked population." Thanks, New York Times.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Get Ready to Celebrate--June is National Dairy Month

If only consumers could see the filters from the milk from
freshly milked cows, which capture feces, clotted blood,
and phlegm. Feces pass coloform bacteria (from the colon)
to the milk you drink. This is not the exception to the
rule. This is just the way it is.

June is National Dairy Month. Here is how the Centers
for Disease Control (CDC) celebrates. CDC's monthly Emerging
Disease Journal (Vol. 10, No. 5) traced the etiology of
infectious disease outbreaks directly to pasteurized milk
consumption.

<http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol10no5/03-0484.htm >

Centers for Disease Control scientists determined
that a new strain of multidrug-resistant Salmonella,
passed from cows to humans through milk, cannot be
controlled by antibiotics.

Lead CDC researcher Sonja J. Olsen is chief of the Epidemiology
Section of the International Emerging Infections Program in
Thailand. Dr. Olsen's interests include the epidemiology and
control of emerging infectious diseases.

Olsen's team investigated a recent Pennsylvania outbreak.
CDC determined that routine inspections do not prevent
poisonings. CDC also determined that such contaminations
after pasteurization are common.

CDC did not state the obvious. Drink body fluids from
diseased animals and you place yourself at risk. Since
pasteurization does not work, and since infections in
cows are all so common, there is just one way to avoid
becoming a CDC statistic...Notmilk!

What did 150,000 Chicago area people do wrong in
March of 1985?

The same thing that 16 Kentucky nuns did wrong in April
of 1984. The same thing that 15 Vermont school children
did wrong in March of 1986, and the same thing that 45
Illinois picnic goers did wrong in July of 1995.
Ninety-three people in New Jersey and Connecticut fell
ill after drinking pasteurized milk in March of
2000, while 49 people became ill after drinking pasteurized
milk in Massachusetts. Thirty-eight in a New York school.
Twenty-three in Arizona. All became violently sick after
drinking pasteurized milk. Forty-nine at a military base
in Louisiana, and 97 at a Florida nursing home. All trusted
the work of Louis Pasteur. All trusted the marketing from
the dairy industry. Nature's perfect food. Indeed.

Nature's perfect food naturally contains dangerous pathogens.
Cow's milk is perfectly disgusting. Salmonella. E. coli.
Listeria. Yersinia. Mycobacterium paratuberculosis. None of
the above is completely destroyed by pasteurization. The
milk is heated in the processing plant. Some bacterial
spores survive. As the milk cools, the bacteria begins to
grow again, doubling at room temperature every 20 minutes.
Doubling every thirty hours in the refrigerator while under
40 degrees Fahrenheit cold storage.

Do you trust in God to protect you? Sixteen Kentucky nuns
did. Do you trust in schools to protect kids? Thirty-eight
New York children did. Do you have that much faith in your
government regulators and dairy farmers to do the right
thing? Millions of people who become ill each year place
their faith in those who know the truth about milk.

Have a dairy-free National Dairy Month for June, 2005.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Damned Dairy Farmers

I've always had a soft spot in my heart for dairy farmers.
These men and women represent the hardest working group of
people in America, with those same family values and work
ethic that once made America strong.

I no longer think that way, and take great pleasure each
time one of them goes out of business resulting in the
family farm being sold. Dairy farmers are damned. Dairy
farmers are scum.

As this column is read by many dairymen, and as my negative
comments and feelings will soon be shared with thousands of
dairy farmers, let me take this opportunity to address all
persons associated with that industry which makes people
ill. Please quote me accurately in all future hate mail:

Shame on you. You can all rot in hell for the pain and
suffering and harm that that you've knowingly caused to
millions of Americans.

What has got me so worked up?

You who are in the dairy industry have always known how
diseased your animals are. You lied to consumers, and
have even deceived yourselves. When your cows get sick,
you cull them from your herd and send them to slaughter.
Before that moment of truth, you continue to milk them
and send your bacteria-laden tainted milk to market.

Johne's Disease and mycobacterium paratuberculosis are
well known nightmares to dairymen, although most consumers
are unaware of how drinking infected milk or eating infected
cheese has taken its toll on America's health.

For years, dairy scientists, dairy magazines, and dairy
marketing con artists have spun lie after lie to a trusting
public. Coming to terms with truth can be painful, but at
last the dairy industry seems to be coming to terms with
this heavily self-censored story. Unfortunately, it's too
late for those who will live the rest of their lives
with irritable bowel syndrome, ulcerative colitis, or
Crohn's Disease.

The May 25, 2005 issue of Hoard's Dairyman (The National
Dairy Farm Magazine) contains an editorial (page 386) admitting
that the Johne's/Crohn's problem is a continuing nightmare
for dairy producers and dairy consumers.

The editorial headline: "Johne's Infection Rates May Be Much
Higher Than We Thought."

Some admissions from that editorial:

1) "There are more Johne's-infected cows in North American
dairy herds than any of us would have guessed."

2) "Research confirms the hit and miss effectiveness of our
common Johne's tests."

3) "There may be three truly infected cows for every one
that tests positive."

4) "Real progress will only be made when we treat every
cow as if she is Johne's-infected."

Mycobacterium paratuberculosis is the bacterium which
causes Johne's in cows and irritable bowel syndrome
and Crohn's disease in humans. These bacteria are not
killed by pasteurization. American consumers continue
to drink body fluids from diseased animals. I have
visited many dairy farms, and in each case, those dairymen,
out of complete disgust (call it insider knowledge) will
not drink the milk they produce, and for good reason.

I find their product disgusting, and I find their deceptive
behavior equally disgusting. Their word is no longer honorable,
and as a group, they should all hang their heads in shame.

More on Crohn's: http://www.notmilk.com/c.html

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Congrats to Notmilk Reader (& Writer)

On April 19, 2005, after reading a bit of dairy industry
propaganda (Hoard's Dairyman had reported, "A strictly
vegetarian diet harms children's growth."), I posted this
column:

<http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/1991 >

One Notmilk reader, Ann Mallon, wrote a letter of protest
to the editor of Hoard's. I was pleased to see the
following on page 374 of the May 25, 2005 issue of the
National Dairy Farm Magazine:

"The Vegetarian Side

Please check your sources before you make such a
report as you did (April 10 issue, page 255) saying
vegan children are unhealthy. Meat is a multi-business
industry, and this was taken advantage to disseminate
propaganda.

Your claims are complete rubbish. I am a nutritionist and
a vegan and previously was unhealthy eating a meat diet.
I also was anemic. Plant foods are what nature intended
for us, not carcasses.

Meat is such big dollars, and that's why it exists today.
The companies want to frigthen vegans off by implanting
their evil lies. That lie now exists as justification
for meat producers to condemn a plant-based diet as
being unhealthy. One molehill of propaganda has grown
into a mountain of misunderstanding."

Ann Mallon

Thanks, Ann! Great letter. :>)

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Forgive My Ignorance (and Anger)

I had never before heard of the Journal of Epidemiology
and Community Health, but consider this: There are
approximately 250,000 journals on this planet, and
anybody with an agenda can get himself (or herself) a
publication. After that, all it takes is a well-financed
press conference, and the work of fools is given equal
weight to the work of Nobel Prize-winning scientists.

The dairy industry's latest con job (they've fooled
the media and they've fooled most consumers) claims
that drinking milk lowers strokes and heart disease.
That so-called scientific study was published in the
June, 2005 issue of the British Journal of Epidemiology
and Community Health, whatever the heck that is...

So...I called the closest college library to my New Jersey
home, Fairleigh Dickenson University (201-692-2289). FDU
carries approximately 1,000 titles, but the Journal of
Epidemiology and Community Health is not in their stacks.

I then called Princeton University (if it was good enough
for Al Einstein, it's good enough for me). Princeton's
research library contains some 44,634 titles. Most of these
journals are published once each month, so if I did not
sleep for 30 days and spent one minute per journal, I'd
know all there was to know. Sadly, I cannot do that.
Even sadder...among the 44,634 important journals that
Princeton University does carry, one will not find
the unprestigious Journal of Epidemiology and Community
Health.

I wrote to the journal and asked how many subscribers
they had. Sonia McEwan, Editorial Assistant, was kind
enough to respond:

"The printed version of the journal has about 1,000 institutional
(mainly university libraries) and personal subscribers, and this
is declining steadily as is the trend for academic journals."

In any event, a group of scientists from the University
of Ulster in Northern Ireland and Wales College in Great
Britain have concluded from their data:

"These results give no convincing evidence of an increased
risk of vascular disease from milk drinking. Rather, the
subjects who drank more than the median amount of milk had
a reduced risk of an ischaemic stroke, and possibly a reduced
risk of an ischaemic heart disease event."

The lead scientist and author off this study, Peter Elwood,
retired ten years ago in 1995. His colleagues tried to honor
him by publishing his work, but they could not find a credible
journal interested in such a poorly done study. Thank goodness
for peer review! Sadly, one can always find a journal desperate
enough to fill their pages with crap-science. Was it a payoff
or bribe or favor returned? We'll never know, but one thing
is certain. This bad study has been marketed by brilliant
professionals.

America's Press exaggerates their conclusion, but members
of the media tend to do that after being coddled and fed
gourmet lunches at lavish press conferences.

American consumers have been left with the impression that
dairy products prevent heart disease. How bogus.

Having no known college library or hospital in the
United States carrying this obscure journal, I did what
any other notmilk guy would do. I paid the $12 fee and
downloaded and printed the study. What can I say? Mickey
(my parent's Amazon parrot) will soon have a new liner for
the bottom of his cage.

Please try not to laugh by the following:

From 1979 until 1983, 2,512 men were asked to keep a one-week
diary of everything they ate. Details of deaths were collected
in 2003. Each man was given a triple-beam balance scale and
was required to weigh every bit of food and drink that he
consumed.

I said, "Try not to laugh."

Milk was measured from milk drinks, breakfast cereals, and
custard. The scientists forgot to include cheese, pizza,
ice cream, yogurt, sour cream, whipped cream with crumpets
in their analyses of what might have led to strokes or
other events associated with heart disease.

Regarding the consumption of milk, the scientists write:

"...most of the differences are small and it would
be impossible to predict how these would together affect
relations with vascular disease."

I was quite anxious to review the food charts in great detail.
After all, I suspected some form of experimental bias was at
work here. Over 2,500 men were in the original study, but
only 665 were given scales and food questionnaires. Was this
a double blind study? What other foods were eaten, and in
what quantity? How much Stilton and Devonshire cheese did
these Brits eat? Sadly, we'll never know. The only food
that the scientists reported (Table #2) was liquid milk.

The study was absurd. The conclusions were worse. The
reporting of this study is criminal. June is National
Dairy Month in the United States. Expect to see this
June publication heavily promoted by those who had
the three-month insider lead time to design and publish
well-placed magazine stories and advertisements.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Blind Dates From the Planet Vega

The variety of questions and comments that I receive each
day never ceases to amaze me. I am often asked advice on
a variety of subjects, some rather intimate and personal.

From 2,000+ daily emails, I average one or more requests
per day for dating information. Do I know an available
woman or man? Sure, I know many, but I am not a matchmaker
or shadkhan (in Judaism, a shadkhan arranges Jewish marriages,
which is the way that my grandfather Sam on my dad's side met
my grandmother Fanny).

So, from now on, I'm sending all such requests to the World
Wide Web. Lonely? Go to:

http://www.veggiedate.org

Sleepless & single in Seattle? Contact LunaBianca or Christopher.
Adventurous and Alone in Albuquerque? Try emailing Justin or
Princess Buttercup. How about New Jersey, where I'm from. There's
Bob, Carol, Ted, or Alice...

What a wonderful place this is. Find the woman or man of
your dreams who does not eat animals and subsequently
does not have that offensive rancid sulfur-like odor which
the Japanese people once smelled in the presence of Americans
and reacted by calling us "The Butter People."

Trust that your "blind date" will not be deaf to
animal rights issues, nor dumb to the fact that
meat and dairy do not do a body good.

You'll find 14,000 like-minded people from America's
50 states and many other nations. Good luck!

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Prostate Cancer/Milk News

The May, 2005 issue of the American Journal of
Clinical Nutrition reports that the consumption of
dairy products may increase prostate cancer risk.
Tseng, et. al., ( Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia,
PA) performed a follow-up analyses of data from the
National Health and Nutrition Examination Epidemiologic
Study. The following objective, design, results, and
conclusions are taken directly from the publication:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
OBJECTIVE: We examined the association of dairy,
calcium, and vitamin D intake with prostate cancer.

DESIGN: In a prospective study of 3612 men followed
from 1982-1984 to 1992 for the first National Health
and Nutrition Examination Epidemiologic Follow-up Study,
131 prostate cancer cases were identified.

RESULTS: Low-fat milk was associated with increased risk
(of prostate cancer). Dietary calcium was also strongly
associated with increased risk.

CONCLUSIONS: Dairy consumption may increase prostate
cancer risk through a calcium-related pathway.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Previous milk/prostate cancer research is consistent with
this latest finding:

"For prostate cancer, epidemiologic
studies consistently show a positive
association with high consumption of
milk, dairy products, and meats."

Giovannucci E., Adv Exp Med Biol
1999;472:29-42

"Cases also reported more frequent
consumption of milk and other dairy
products and meat, but no significant
difference was noted for
vegetable intake."

Talamini R, Br J Cancer
1986 Jun;53(6):817-21

"Higher intake of meat and dairy products
has been associated with greater risk of
prostate cancer..."

Willett WC, Salud Publica Mex
1997, Jul-Aug;39(4):298-309

"Positive correlations between foods and
cancer mortality rates were particularly
strong in the case of meats and milk for
breast cancer, milk for prostate and
ovarian cancer, and meats for colon
cancer."

Rose DP, Cancer
1986 Dec 1;58(11):2363-71

"Diet appears to be a major determinant
in the incidence of prostate cancer. In
a case-control study conducted in Athens,
Greece, we found that dairy products,
butter and seed oils were positively
associated with risk of prostate cancer,
whereas cooked and raw tomatoes were
inversely associated."

Bosetti C, Eur J Cancer Prev
2000, Apr;9(2):119-23

"Diets high in dairy products and meats
are related to higher risk of prostate
cancer incidence or mortality in most
ecologic, case-control, and prospective
studies."

Giovannucci E., Cancer Causes Control
1998, Dec;9(6):567-82

"Suggestive positive associations were
also seen between fatal prostate cancer
and the consumption of milk, cheese,
eggs, and meat. "

Snowdon DA,Am J Epidemiol
1984, Aug;120(2):244-50

"The strongest and most consistent
effects are positive associations
with animal products such as red
meats, eggs and dairy foods, and
possibly by implication, fat."

Giles G, Ireland P., Int J Cancer
1997; Suppl 10:13-7

"Among major food groups, milk and dairy
products as well as added lipids were
marginally positively associated with
risk for prostate cancer."

Tzonou A, Int J Cancer
1999, Mar 1;80(5):704-8

"High consumption of dairy products was
associated with a 50 percent increased
risk of prostate cancer. "

Chan JM, Cancer Causes Control
1998 Dec;9(6):559-66

"Positive trends in risk were found
for consumption of cured meat and
milk products. "

Schuurman AG, Br J Cancer
1999, Jun;80(7):1107-13

"Biomarkers, including testosterone and
insulin-like growth factor, and
nutritional factors, especially meat,
fat, and dairy intake, have been linked
to greater risk of disease. "

Chan JM, Semin Cancer Biol
1998, Aug;8(4):263-73

Please share this information with the men
in your life. If you are able to, please send
a copy to the ex-Mayor of New York, Rudy, and
the current manager of the New York Yankees,
Joe. Both men continue to battle early stages
of prostate cancer. Both men have supported
the dairy industry's "Got Milk?" campaign. Neither
man should be consuming milk or dairy products.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Natural Hormones in Cow's Milk

I received this letter of inquiry from one of my readers:

mrman_35@... wrote:

"My name is Christian Garon. I have a genetic disorder
called MEN 1(Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type 1) that
runs on my mothers side of the family. Although the
disease is not caused by milk it would be sufficient to
say there is a great similarity in what milk and MEN 1 do.

MEN 1 when active causes hyperactivity of the parathyroid
glands. This produces too much parathormone which leeches
bone calcium out into the blood. Among a number of different
things this causes the obvious which is kidney stones.

What I want to know is if there is anything in milk that
stimulates overproduction of parathormone? If this is true
then that would be an even greater cause of Osteoporosis than
dietary protein, as I have heard protein is not necesarily
a cause of osteoporosis. If that were true then why promote
the eating of any wheats or pastas? They are protein rich
as well."

My reply:

Dear Christian,

Dairy products, long thought to be a wholesome food for
children, actually contain powerful steroid and protein
growth hormones.

I cannot even begin to tell you what the consequences are
from ingesting dozens of different steroid and protein
hormones each day. I doubt that even the world's most
educated neuroendocrinologists could venture a guess.

Endocrinologist Clark Grosvenor published a review of the
known hormones and growth factors in milk ("Hormones and
Growth Factors in Milk,"Endocrine Reviews, volume 14,
number 6, 1992). Each sip of cow's milk includes pituitary,
hypothalamic, pancreatic, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal,
gonadal, and gut hormones. The list does not include other
important milk factors such as prostaglandins and neuropeptides.

The milk in your morning cereal may appear to be white and
pure, but what follows is a list of bioactive substances in
milk taken from Table One of Grosvenor's paper:

PITUITARY HORMONES (PRL, GH, TSH, FSH, LH, ACTH Oxytocin)

STEROID HORMONES (Estradiol, Estriol, Progesterone, Testosterone,
17-Ketosteroids, Corticosterone, Vitamin D)

HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES (TRH, LHRH, Somatostatin, PRL- inhibiting
factor,PRL-releasing factor, GnRH, GRH)

GASTROINTESTINAL PEPTIDES (Vasoactive intestinal peptide,
Bombesin, Cholecystokinin,Gastrin, Gastrin inhibitory peptide,
Pancreatic peptide,Y peptide, Substance P, Neurotensin)

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Kosher Meets Calcutta for Bagels in Bombay

Fusion foods are the delicious offspring from the
mating of two or more ethnic and cultural cuisines.

I love fusion cooking. Some of the finest upscale restaurants
have mastered the art of merging French and Chinese techniques,
or combining Japanese with Italian staples which result in new
and exciting dishes. I myself have created such culinary
delights as broiled tempeh with wild-mushroom Marsala sauce,
and sushi with garlic-infused escarole and whole wheat angel
hair pasta. My homemade Chinese hoisin pizzas with shitake
mushrooms and snow peas are incredible. Last evening, necessity
became the mother of invention. Faced with an empty refrigerator
and a powerful appetite, I created a gourmet dinner where there
was none.

A few weeks ago, I had ordered a case of dipping sauces and
chutneys from a new company, Naturally India. The case of
goodies arrived via UPS on Friday, and I left them in my
downstairs office. The timing was perfect. The Jewish holiday
of Passover had ended in early May, and every Jew worth his
salt (with the exception of Lot and his lovely wife,
Wattzernaym) is left with multiple boxes of unopened matzoh
to be stored on the very top shelf of the least opened kitchen
cabinet.

Matzoh is that traditional bread replacer which Jews baked
in the desert while escaping from Pharaoh's troops. Having
no time to leaven bread, matzoh became the 18-minute staple
(from mixing of dough to eating). If you're not Jewish,
you'll recognize matzoh as a giant wafer-thin perforated
Saltine-like cracker, seven inches long and seven inches
wide. This remarkable low-calorie food contains just two
ingredients, wheat flour and water. Its texture is crunchy
and its taste is neutral. Just the perfect match for the
eight jars of dipping sauce and chutney contained in my
box of Naturally India food.

I am not a matzoh gourmet. One piece looks and tastes the
same to me as any other, and that is its beauty. I do, however,
adore Indian foods for their subtle blend of aromatic herbs and
spices. When dining in fine Indian restaurants, there is usually
one kind of chutney or peppery dipping sauce to be ordered along
with the various vegetarian dishes cooked in complex curried
sauces. I was about to open eight jars. Four sauces. Four chutneys.
Could the taste come close to the beautifully decorated jars,
each a work of art? I had never before seen fenugreek flowers
or saffron blossoms painted upon food labels. Lemons with mangos
and chilies with gooseberries adorned those containers which were
soon to be opened. I read jar after jar for the ingredients. Green
cardamom with pistachio nuts. Saffron and almonds. Evaporated
cane sugar and turmeric with cumin and tamarind.

Soon I had eight jars opened, plus two pieces of matzoh, which
I carefully broke (along the perforated lines) into perfect
one-inch dipping pieces, just large enough to scoop into each jar
without making a mess. I settled myself comfortably in the family
den where I would watch game one of the Yankee-Met baseball series
while enjoying my simple fusion dinner.

Although I was prepared to be disappointed, the Yankees were a
winner in the first game of the three-game series. The Naturally
India foods were a big winner too. I was amazed, and probably
ate a bit more than I should have. Yes, I saved some for the
other members of my family who had left me alone for the evening.
I ate mango chutney with raisins and chilies, and although the
lemon skin chutney was a bit strange upon first tasting, this
new and unique food (flavored with fenugreek) became my favorite
along with the smooth tamarind chili sauce with an added essence
of pureed dates.

All of those spices combined with so many pieces of matzoh
created a difficult-to-satisfy thirst that plain water would
not relieve. And then I remembered. I had a six-back of fine
Dutch beer in a basement storage room. What goes best with
with my Indian-Jewish repast is Buckler Non-Alcoholic beer,
brewed by Heineken in Holland.

Tonight I'll be cooking Indian food for my entire family.
Naturally India also manufactures a line of simmer sauces
which are easy to prepare instant-gourmet dishes. I'll make
three different entrees. Each will use the same cooking method.
In a two-quart pot I'll bring two cups of water to a boil
with one-half package of either pomegranate/ginger sauce,
pistachio/saffron sauce, or cardamom/nutmeg sauce. To each
package I'll add one of my own veggie bouillon cubes. To pot
number one I'll add cooked chick peas with some cut green
peppers and green beans. To pot number two I'll add peeled
one-inch cut potatoes with diced carrots and onions. To the
third pot, I'll add cauliflower and asparagus. Each will simmer
and the veggies will absorb the flavors of each sauce. When
the veggies are al dente (we do not overcook vegetables in
our kitchen), the dishes will be served along with the eight
jars of dipping sauces and chutneys with jasmine-flavored
Basmati rice.

This same feast can be yours. The owner of this amazing new
food company is Harshad Parekh. His website:

http://www.naturallyindia.com

Harshad can be reached at 908-369-6300. The sauces
and chutneys can be found in gourmet shops and retail
for $3.69 per 10.5 ounce jar. This offer is short term,
but you can buy them wholesale by the case as I have done
for just $11.40 plus shipping.

Mention NOTMILK when ordering and you'll pay just
$9.54 per case (no, I get no commission!)

I personally guarantee that this will be the best Indian
food you've ever tasted, and you'll be the cook. All of the
ingredients are natural and wholesome and hand cut. You'll find
no dairy or animal products or cholesterol in any of these foods.
Go for it, and bon apetit.

Oh, yes. Bagels, anyone? The gooseberry/saffron/chili chutney
on the top with the mango/cilantro on the bottom is the Taj
Mahal of bagels, and would have tempted even Gandhi to end one
of his long fasts.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Crohn's Disease & H.S. Geometry

My daughter Lizzy is taking high school geometry, and
a look at her textbook triggered painful memories of my
own experiences in Mr. Haluska's 1970 high school geometry
class. One thing I remember is proofs. One would make a
list of "givens," that taken together, added up to a provable
and incontrovertible proof. My pain and trauma and moans
and groans included personal comments such as "What good is
this garbage, and how am I possibly going to apply this to
my future life?" I had no clue that 35 years later, I'd
be utilizing the tools of geometrical proofs to that painful
suffering of the bowels which affects 40 million Americans.

A study in the May, 2005 issue of the Journal of Veterinary
Microbiology (May 20;107(3-4):257-63) analyzed feces from
Pennsylvania dairy cows in order to observe rates of bovine
bacterial infections associated with human Crohn's Disease,
ulcerative colitis, and irritable bowel syndrome. Does that
concern you?

A team of dairy scientists at the Department of Medicine
and Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University
of California, Davis (Crossley, et. al.) collected fecal
samples from 786 cows and were able to culture colonies
of bacteria from nearly one out of every four cows tested.

Cows infected with mycobacterium paratuberculosis are
diagnosed as "Johne's positive." People who drink milk
from cow's with Johne's are candidates for Crohn's,
ulcerative colitis, and irritable bowels.

Given:

"Johne's disease and Crohn's disease are remarkably
similar in clinical signs and intestinal pathology."

Hoard's Dairyman, January 24, 1995

Given:

"Of 77 milk samples (taken from cows with Johne's disease),
11.6% were culture-positive (contained M. paratubercolosis)."

Journal of Clinical Microbiology 1992;30(1):166-171

Given:

"Mycobacterium paratuberculosis was isolated from tissue taken
from patients with Crohn's disease and is implicated in the
etiology of this disease."

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 1993, May 31(5)

Given:

"Mycobacterium Paratuberculosis crosses the species barrier
to infect and cause disease in humans."

British Medical Journal, Feb 1998.315

Given:

"Mycobacterium paratuberculosis is capable of surviving
commercial pasteurization..."

Applied and Environmental Microbiology: 64(3), Mar 1998.

Given:

"Mycobacterium paratuberculosis RNA was found in 100% of
Crohn's disease patients, compared with 0% of controls."

National Academy of Sciences USA :93: September, 1996

Summary: Drinking milk can infect you with mycobacterium
paratuberculosis and can lead to various diseases.

Conclusion: Geometry can be hazardous to your health!

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Coronary Cholesterol Confusion (Part 2)
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Part 1 can be found at:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/2021
_________________________________________________________

Heart disease is America's number-one killer. The
choice is yours to either be a victim, or have a
change of heart and let food be your medicine.

Is there really such a thing as "bad cholesterol?"

Repeat after me:

My body is not stupid.
It does not do stupid things.
It reacts to the stupid things which my mind
directs it to do.
Whoever designed the human body did so with
an intelligent plan.

The following is not be taught in medical schools.
The following represents the cause and cure of heart disease.
You want simplicity? Here it is...

The manufacture of LDL Cholesterol (low density lipoprotein)
is the human response to continuous heart damage. The
internal production and secretion of this so-called
"bad cholesterol" is the manner in which the body repairs
its own damage. I call LDL cholesterol the body's own
spackle. When picture hooks cause holes in your walls,
you simply go to a hardware store to purchase a can of
spackle. That fills the hole. Many events are responsible
for heart damage. The largest heart study in American
history (Castelli's Framingham Heart Study) has identified
sulfur-based amino acids (from eating animal protein) as
the key to the etiology of heart disease. So, the body's
antidote to Atkins Diet insanity is to neutralize the
damage caused by the ingestion of animal protein. Your
body's response is to manufacture more LDL cholesterol.

The higher the cholesterol reading, the greater is the damage
that must be repaired. So, what do naive meat eaters do when
faced with high cholesterol rates? They seek advice from
well meaning, but ignorant doctors.

Doctors prescribe cholesterol-lowering drugs which take away
the body's mechanism by which the damage is repaired. In other
words, cholesterol-lowering drugs make things worse. Why not
simply eliminate those factors which cause the damage? Because
most doctors are not taught to think. They are taught to
diagnose and prescribe medications. (There are exceptions
to this "ignorant doctor" rule. They include John McDougall, MD,
Joel Fuhrman, MD, Michael Greger, MD, and many others).

Animal protein (meat and dairy) contains an abundance of
sulfur-based amino acids. The worst foods to eat (the
highest levels of sulfur) are chicken and eggs. You do
not want the rotten egg smell infusing into each of your
body's cells. One must neutralize the resulting acid. To
do so, calcium is leached from where it is stored: in the
skeletal system. For this reason, those living in meat-eating
nations have the highest rates of bone disease.

So, what can you do if you have high cholesterol and hope
to prevent or reverse heart disease? The heart-healthy answer
is to change your diet and furnish your body with clean fuel.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Coronary Cholesterol Confusion (Part 1)

I went to Medline's website:

<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi >

And typed in the keyword, "cholesterol"

The good news is that up came links to 145,211 different
cholesterol studies which have been published in peer-reviewed
scientific journals.

The bad news is that I would have to pay, on average,
$20 to obtain each study. To make matters worse, my
wife (she writes all the checks) refused to cooperate.
Seeing the crazed look in my eyes, she hid the checkbook.

The even-worse news is that averaging 10 minutes per study
review, I would have to invest 1.5 million minutes of my
time (over 1000 days without setting aside time for sleep)
to become America's cholesterol expert. Of course, during
that time frame, there most likely would be tens of thousands
of additional new studies to review.

Facing the task of painting the Golden Gate Bridge as
my life's work (when one finishes, one begins anew),
I decided not to read, review, analyze, and critique all
that has been and is to be written about cholesterol.

Instead, I began to wonder about the system which fuels
such studies. The system that provides funding for
scientific research. At $50,000 per study (just my
own arbitrary number...after all, scientists and lab
rats have to eat), we obtain a collective cost to society
of over $7,250,000,000. Is that economical? Of course it is.
Those same funds could be used to finance the construction
of two Air Force AWACS planes. Or one space shuttle flight.
Or, three week's effort of searching for Bin Laden.

So...rats and scientists scurry and consume and publish
and reveal to the world one hundred and fifty thousand
different tidbits of cholesterol information, and what
does the public do? Eat more bacon and eggs, that's what.
Consume more cholesterol-rich foods such as cheese, pizza,
and ice cream.

Which brings me to the question which will be answered
in tomorrow's column:

What the heck does cholesterol have to do with heart disease?

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Reader Response to Dog Torture Video

Do you own a fur-trimmed winter coat? Chances are
that the fur comes from dogs raised in China. I
recently wrote about the processing of this "commodity"
and included a video for your viewing pleasure:

http://www.peta2.com/OUTTHERE/o-AndyDWetSeal.asp
_________________________________________________
A few of your Comments:

Jamie <jabav@...> wrote:

I write this letter with shaking hands and a broken heart.
Never in my life have I seen such horrible torture. Why
couldn't they have at least killed these poor innocent
animals first instead of leaving them to die such a
horrible, cruel, heartless death. I will be haunted
forever with images of the poor helpless creature laying
there skinless, to die.

I watched the video to the end. My entire body feels like
it's shaking from the inside out. The second half of the
video showed only the rest of the animals whose fate was known.

I do believe if people saw this they would forever fight
against it and not promote it by buying and/or wearing fur
from these gorgeous and beautiful creatures.
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Spence <getwell2@...> wrote:

I have to agree with you....my spirit grieved heavily
and I also could not finish watching the videos. There
is a day of reckoning. How dull and hardened people
have become. It was never our destiny to be that way.
We were to be the keepers and protectors, not this...
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Clare <Chiara50@...> wrote:

I have never seen such atrocity in my life, NEVER!
I just couldn't believe my eyes or stop crying. The
anger that arose within me is beyond belief...I am
currently numb.
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Kristi <toddkris@...> wrote:

Thought I could watch this video. Didn't think it would
bother me, but it did! I made it about 30 seconds and
almost threw up. How horrifying!!! I don't buy fur, but
was never really concerned about who did. This industry
reminds me of the abortion clinics all over our country!
Innocent preborn human lives need protected too! What kind
of people are we becoming when we've lost our sense of the
sanctity of life?
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Osher <osher_bachrach@...> wrote:

Ouch! I started viewing the video. I had to turn
it off after a few minutes. It is truly awful.
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Gretchen <gretajean96@...> wrote:

I could watch only the beginning of that footage. My
fiancee watched the whole thing and told me that there
was a little guy who was skinned and then he got up and
looked around. I was deeply disturbed for days after
just hearing that. I take as much solace as I can from
knowing that there are others who care like we do and are
trying to stop the monsters.
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Brenda <bm_curran@...> wrote:

You are right - its probably the worst visual I could
imagine, but I did watch it - and the 2nd half is more
about the poor animals in cages, rather than the live
skinning of these beautiful creatures you would have seen -
horrible.

You may be interested to know about Animals Asia Foundation

http://www.animalsasia.org

- apart from their famous China Moon Bear Rescue and sanctuary
in China, Jill Robinson and her team of dedicated animal lovers
(and influence in the chinese government), have their Dr. Dog
program - which uses rescued dogs (and cats) from the live food/
animal trade - to take into doctors clinics, hospitals, blind
children homes and orphanages etc to rekindle the lost special
bond of "a mans best friend" and animals for positive health
treatments. They are very special people indeed, having met
Jill and the team and worked on some of their projects (as
volunteer and pro-bono in Australia). Every bit of publicity
counts (both hard to watch and the good outcomes) to stem the
awful use of animals for human selfishness. Thanks for sharing
the video.
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Mary <maryagahee@...> wrote:

I watched in horror at the first animal and then
when they took the cute white dog out of the cage
who was very playful and started to skin it alive;
I couldn't take it anymore. What is wrong with
these people? I feel helpless to stop them.
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John <ibjohnseydler@...> wrote:

Evidently you can stomach more violence than I can.
The few images I saw as I scanned through the video
were more than enough to convince me that these people
are cruel, sadistic, and could skin you or me alive
without giving it a second thought. Too bad the
American people are now obliged to send their wealth
to such an evil murderous people. NAFTA and GATT are
surely designed to weaken our beloved nation and China
is likely one of the implements of death poised to
destroy us.
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Lea <leadersp@...>

I felt like vomitting after only literrally 5 seconds,
I was so angry. Wow. That really ruined my day.
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Linda <lpiel@...> wrote:

I could only watch until the poor being was being
skinned alive. All day I have said "Oh, my GOD",
it is the most awful, terrible, inhumane thing I
have ever seen. It filled me with such rage that I
could easily bash in the head of the MAN with no
qualms. The eyes of the injured and dying animals...
a sight I shall always carry with me. My granddaughter
and I are PETA members and vegetarians. I am afraid
to even show her this video, she is only nine.
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Kathy <taylor_kathy@...> wrote:

NEVER in my life have I witnessed such cruelty. The
first half was so unbelievably horrible, with the
skinning of live animals. The animals I am sure can
hear and see the slaughter and know what is awaiting
them. It is so horrible and cruel. Yes, I cried.
and yes, I sent PETA a small donation as a visceral
reaction. But I also asked PETA to get the word out
to more people, rather than staging relatively innocent
demonstrations against women who wear fur, such as
throwing paint on a fur coat. People need to know what
hell is going on right in our world. We can get the
sights and word out to people, and you are right, if
they see what is going on, they might stop the fur trade.
I already had known that the fur trade was horrible, but
I had not known the extent of it.
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John <john@...> wrote:

Hello Secretary Gutierrez,

I recently became aware of the horrific conditions under
which China fur farms operate. Many animals are literally
skinned alive, and remain alive for a good while after being
skinned. See:

http://www.furisdead.com/feat/ChineseFurFarms

Much of the fur imported into the U.S. comes from China.

Are there any plans on the part of U.S. trade officials to
pressure the Chinese government to put a stop to these
abominable practices? I've also written to North Carolina
Senators Elizabeth Dole and Richard Burr, and to N.C.
Representative Walter Jones Jr. about this.

We've leaned on foreign countries with respect to their human
rights records; it's time to do the same with regard to animal
rights. Even the Almighty cares about how we treat our animal
friends:

"A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast: but the
tender mercies of the wicked are cruel." Proverbs 12:10

Please take some decided action here, and soon.
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<emailbox07@...> wrote:

...my stomach turns as I bring these images to mind.
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Sue <Sue.Molenda@...> wrote:

I imagined myself a friend of the unfortunate individual
whose coat you saw being removed...

His dazed comrade writes, below:

You saw a little of what we endure, and could not watch any
more. I watch it every day. You called it unprecedented
suffering. It is not. It is the routine riot against our
ravaged race. I have witnessed it daily, from birth, from
behind the wire squares that confine me and all my fellow
sufferers.

The hairless ones, as we call them, (you may call them men)
keep us in cages, very near the daily slaughter.

What envy drives men to covet our coats for themselves? What
hatred drives them to torture us, all our lives, just because
we have what they do not?

The ones who feed us--and those who torture us--do not even
wear our coats, themselves. They murder us for sport, and
trade our coats for ugly paper and tiny bits of metal, which
can neither adorn nor keep them warm.

I will tell you what you could not watch, today. It is a scene
that repeats itself daily, in my world, and nightly, in my
dreams-- in all but one.

I will tell you that dream, first. I will let you know a little
of the pleasure that I have only imagined, before I tell you of
the nightmare that is my daily reality.

A hairless one--a small one, with great, round eyes, and a
soothing voice, opens the door to my cage. She carries me
gently. She says we are running away. She holds me in her arms,
and I do not thrash or bite her. She smells of apples and rice,
and not like the fermenting flesh of my fallen friends. The
other hairless ones always smell of death and murder. She smells
of life and goodness. I am not frightened.

But you don't want to hear my dream, now. You asked to hear what
really happened.

Most days, I do not leave my cage. But every day I long to
escape it. I long to run along on the cool ground, and through
the tall grasses, beneath the trees that beckon, in my dream.
This day, the cage opens. I am lifted into the air. Two of my
comrades are waiting, on the ground already. The hairless one
holds the big stick in his hand. I have seen him hit others
with it. I have heard their cries. I close my eyes, as he
strikes the friend on my left. The crack against bone is
louder, and my friend's groan of shock and pain is sharper
and more terrifying than any I have heard.

I feel the impact of a blunt beam against my own head. I am
shocked beyond belief. I have seen this horror, but I never
knew how dizzying pain was. Again, and again, the hairless
one strikes me. I want to run away. I want the small one to
gather me up and rescue me. I call to her. I call to anyone
who will hear, but the stick keeps slamming into my skull,
and all I know is pain and terror. Relentless terror. Why
won't anyone come to my aid? I fall limp, silent, at last,
and I begin to dream.

I dream I am running, beside the small, hairless one. She
feeds me berries and flowers that are more succulent than
any food that ever was tossed into my cage.

But then I hear a noise, a gutteral, sucking, wretching
noise, and I open my eyes. The hairless one has tied my
comrade up by his legs. He has sliced around the bottoms
of his feet, and slit his coat up to his belly. My friend
gags and wretches, and then he begins to fight. He thrashes
in vain, and calls for help, but we are all helpless. The
hairless ones shout. They laugh and spit and talk as if it
is a sport to cause us pain. The hairless one cuts away at
bits of flesh that hold the coat to my friend's most personal
places.

I fear for my friend's life. I fear his pain. I know that
I will be the next one hoisted by my legs. I know that no
round-eyed child is coming for me, but I wish I'd had time
to tell my friend of the dream. It is something to think
about. Something to carry the mind away from the unrelenting
terror and pain. My head is throbbing. I cannot imagine how
the peeling will feel.

The hairless one grabs my friend's coat in both his hands,
now, and gives a mighty pull. He peels the flesh from my
friend, and it comes off in one, ghastly whole.

The hairless one hands my friend's coat to another hairless
one. I do not think they are friends. What bond can form
between two beings who kill and torture others, for a living?
Their sole delight derives from others' pain.

My friend is beside me, now. He opens his mouth to speak.
But his despair is unutterable. He falls, back, spent. With
all his strength he raises his head, and looks into my eyes.
I know he is trying to speak to me. But he has no words. I
notice now, what large, round eyes he has. They are rimmed
with long, beautiful lashes. He is hairless, now. But he is
not like the others. He is small. He looks almost like the
child of my dreams. But he could not rescue me. His face and
body are red with blood. His eyes are full of grief and pain.
I do not know how it feels. But I will. I wait, and close my
eyes. I know they will come for me next.

But they do not. I hear the barking of another animal. A
chorus of barking. The white dogs are rebelling. Some of my
comrades reply. I don't understand the white dogs' language,
but I hear, in their barking, the same terror and outrage that
our, softer voices utter. They bring a dog from his cage. He
is dazzling. His snow-white fur is long. The hairless one
strikes him with the club. He does not lift him by the legs.
He clubs the dog until he lies still. He raises his knife.

He makes the same cuts that he made around my friend's feet--
the feet that now lie, motionless, beside me, shod in the only
remnant of a grand and shimmering garment. The dog is bigger.
He fights harder. He barks. He turns his head to bite the man,
and the man smacks his head, over and over, with the knife,
until the dog lies still. He cuts again, around the dogs private
parts. The dog complains. The man stands erect, with all his
weight on one foot, atop the white dog's neck. When he steps
off, the dog whimpers again.

The man jumps back on the neck again, with both feet now,
and stomps the skull, to crush the life out of the dog.

I black out, for a moment. I cannot see. I am back in my
dream. The little hairless girl comes for me. She lifts me
in her arms. She carries me far, far, into the woods. She
sets me down beside a still stream. I drink thirstily. I
lay my head in the girl's lap. She feeds me. My head stops
throbbing.

Crack. I feel the club hitting my skull again. I open my
eyes. I see the man, still jumping on the dog's head.

And then... all I know is the dream. All I want is the dream.
To run in the woods, and drink by the stream-- to lie in the
lap of a sweet-smelling girl, and eat berries.

Sue Molenda Sue.Molenda@...
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Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

If Fur Coat Factories Had Glass Walls

In 1996, Paul and Linda McCartney issued this opinion:

"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be
vegetarian."

Yesterday, I watched half of the video (Inside the Chinese
Fur Trade) on this link:

http://www.peta2.com/OUTTHERE/o-AndyDWetSeal.asp

Neither the clubbing of baby-white seals, nor the slaughtering
of lambs, nor boiling of squealing pigs affected me as much as
the above film. Those other abominations I forced myself to
watch to their conclusion. Not this one. I have never in my
life witnessed anything so horrifying, and I could not view the
second half of the attached video. If you are able to, please
relate to me what I missed. Perhaps your written words will
lessen my anguish of being an eyewitness to such unprecedented
suffering.

Send the link to friends or members of your family who
continue to wear fur, and thank those who made viewing
of this film possible.

http://www.PETA.org

I wonder in what manner a tribunal of animals sitting in
judgement would deliver justice to the men who commit such
immoral acts of cruelty and torture, and to the untold number
of other persons who knowingly participate in said crime by
electing to wear a victim's skin.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

The Cure to What Ails You

Suppose you get really, really sick. Or a loved
one's health becomes severely compromised. The
Cleveland Clinic treats 5 million people each year.
There's also the Mayo Clinic. And the Sloan Kettering
Institute.

Mom needs triple bypass surgery. Dad has lung cancer.
Grandma has severe osteoporosis. Sis has diabetes.
The baby has asthma. Where and what are the best
treatment options?

Ever notice that in times of illness, everybody claims to
have the best doctor. Suggestions of second opinions are met
with anger and rejection. There must be two million "best
doctors" in America, but most have little clue about
the cause and cure of major diseases. They diagnose well
by relying upon incredible machines that see damage within.
Then they prescribe powerful medications which do wonders
by masking symptoms. But these "best doctors" rarely cure
and almost never prevent disease.

There is one very good place to go, but most people
instead select the circuitous route to hell. Where is
that place and who is the physician?

The world's best hospital facility is the Garden of Eden,
and the best healer is yourself. This is no mythical place.
If you could choose your rest and rehab facility, would
it not be the Garden of Eden? What foods do you imagine
would be served while you recover from your illness?
What medicines would be given to you, in extreme doses?

Isoflavones and bioflavinoids from freshly picked fruits
and vegetables. Vitamins and minerals from nuts and seeds.

Your blood would become pure. Your internal organs would
be purged of mucus and toxins. Your cells would be nourished.
Diseased tissues would be overcome by the process of healthy
rejuvenation.

Is that Garden of Eden really so mythical? Of course not.
The cure which so many unhealthy people reject is spelled
out with simplicity in Genesis 1:29 with these words:

"And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing
seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree,
in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall
be for meat."

This Garden of Eden is more than a leap of faith. The health
and healing benefits of a plant-based diet are supported by
thousands of scientific studies which have been published
in peer-reviewed journals.

Forgive the "best doctors in the world" for they have not
been trained properly, so they cannot see. Your journey to
that Garden of Eden must be a personal one, and you must
become the healer. Reject the foods that made your blood
dirty and ugly. Reject the residues from animal products
that turned your blood sour, and prematurely aged your cells.
With clean foods comes healing. You are the healer. You
know the path.

Final thought...This special garden is not just a place
to visit when you become ill. It'a place to reside all of
your life, for by doing so, you prevent those illnesses
that plague non-believers.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

The Sabbath & Vitamin B-12 (Part 2)

Yesterday (May 14, 2005) I posted Part 1 of a
two-part column. See:

<http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/2016 >

Many of you believe that Vitamin B-12 supplements are
critical to the health of vegans. I believe this to be pure
nonsense.

Despite real science, the B-12 myth continues. If you feel
that you must eat B-12 (which is produced by bacterial
action), then buy organic carrots and be sure to eat the
unwashed roots. Washing will kill the bacteria, rich with
Vitamin B-12. If you dislike carrots...

Warning to my readers:

Today's column contains explicit sexual themes. If you
embarrass easily, or if your religious, moral, or ethical
beliefs prevent you from reading material of a sexual
nature, please, read no more. In today's commentary, I
discuss the science of sex in as dignified and delightful a
manner as I am able, sometimes using a bit of humor, but
continuously recognizing that such concepts may be offensive
to some people, so please, if you find such discussion
inappropriate, stop reading immediately. If you are easily
offended by material of a sexual nature, please exercise the
use of your delete button now.

For those so inclined to ignore the warning in the previous
paragraph and write nasty letters to me, see yesterday's column.
Although I do not expect Mel Gibson to follow his first graphically
violent pornographic movie with a second non-violent work of
pornography, please take note that the Holy Bible endorses oral
sex. To hate me for mergeing science and religion is to admit that
you reject both credible sources of information.

Without embarrassment, this is a subject that needs to be
discussed. I am past the point of being disgusted by know-
it-all vegetarian and vegan nutritionists and dieticians who
believe that one must take artificial supplements derived
from cow intestines, containing Vitamin B-12 in order to
maintain good health. The fact that vegans have B-12 in
their bloodstreams is evidence enough that we're somehow
obtaining it. Low dose, high dose, it really doesn't matter.
Fact is that we need just a few micrograms of B-12, and a
five-year supply is stored in the average human liver. That
fact alone negates the scare tactics of those who criticize
the pure vegan diet, or dispense supplements as a part of
their self-sustaining practices.

Vegan blood contains some B-12. In that, there is no debate.
Vegan semen and vaginal secretions contain many times more
Vitamin B-12 than does human blood.

The solution? Make love. Enjoy oral sex. The ingestion of
sexual body secretions from your lover will insure good
health for you.

In addition to the usual frogs, snails, and puppy dogs
tails, what are little boys made of? What exactly is in
semen?

Ten percent of semen consists of sperm cells, up to 500
million per ejaculate. It takes only one sperm cell to
fertilize an egg. I often wonder why the other 499,999 are
necessary.

What constitutes the other 90% of semen? In addition to
enormous amounts of vitamins, enzymes, and amino acids,
semen contains up to 20 times the level of Vitamin B-12 as
does human blood serum. Vaginal fluids contain a similar
makeup, rich in B-12.

Scientists knew this 21 years ago, but had no socially-tactful
way to transmit this information to the lay person. (Yeah, I
know, you simply adore my use of the English language).

As early as March of 1984, Carmel Bernstein and a team of
investigators published evidence in the Journal of Clinical
Investigations (73;3, Vitamin B-12 in human seminal plasma)
revealing that blood has one-tenth the amount of B-12 as
does male semen.

Eight years later, the Scandanavian Journal of Clinical
Laboratory Investigations (Hansen, 1992 Nov;52(7):647-52)
determined that B-12 levels in human semen run as high as 20
times that of blood. Similar amounts of B-12 have been found
in vaginal secretions.

Second and final warning. For those of you unwilling or
unable to discuss or partake in the loving art of
cunnilingus or fellatio, read no more. What follows is
descriptive.

Many people have an aversion to oral sex because of the
taste or smell. Can that often be justified? Absolutely.

Long ago, in the days before artificial modern-day perfumes
and deodorants were used to mask human odors, people enjoyed
body smells. Don Juan would keep handkerchiefs under his
armpits and wave them in front of ladies' noses. That action
was designed to bring them to arousal from his own natural
essences and bouquet which contained pheromones, chemicals
containing natural sexual messengers that communicate
instinctual feelings shared by all mammals. Truth revealed:
Why does a male dog mount and hump a human female leg,
thrusting his pelvis as if in the act of copulation? It's
not because he smells your puppy, ladies. It's because he
smells your very own pheromones which trigger a genetically
pre-determined fixed action pattern in Fido's brain.

On to the olfactory bouquet from your own essences.

Dairy farmers know that if their cows eat onions or garlic
less than 30 minutes before milking, those powerfully
offensive smells will be included in their body secretions
which are then transmitted to their milk. A similar event
occurs with human body fluids. You are what you eat. Deer
know when meat-eating humans walk into the woods. Vegans
have a way with denizens of the forest. Vegans do not eat
other living creatures. Deer can tell by human smells. So
can dogs and other mammals possessing keener olfactory
senses than humans.

For many years, non dairy-using Japanese people called
Americans "butter-people," for the rancid smell that would
seep out of our pores. I can smell butter people. I am
amazed at the number of people calling themselves vegan who
are actually dairy users. I can smell the aftermath of pizza
24 hours after a vegan eats one by his or her offensive
odor. The mozzarella turns rancid from within. Its smell
lingers on a user's breath. Milk the cow and get the garlic
or onion milk. Milk the human and get Kentucky-fried chicken
essence.

Humans who eat meat ingest large amounts of sulfur-based
amino acids. That is one of the qualities of meat protein.
The sulfur becomes a part of their own smell and taste. Eat
large amounts of methionine and you'll taste quite rancid.

I have met many vegans who relate anecdotal evidence of how
other vegans make better lovers because they "taste better."
Where are Masters and Johnson when you need them? The good
that comes from this column will result in two lovers
enjoying a large meal of fresh pineapple before their next
bout of foreplay. Gourmets and epicurians of the world,
unite. Your next dose of love will contain the best vitamin
pill in the world. Was it Mary Poppins who sang, "Just a
spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down"?

Remember, for B-12, make love, and do so with good taste.

For more on B-12 see:

<http://www.lifesave.org/VitaminB12.htm >

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

The Sabbath & Vitamin B-12 (Part 1)

In the King James version of the Holy Bible (Exodus 20:8),
the Fourth of Ten Commandments instructs us to:

"Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy."

Many people do so by reading the Bible for its
wisdom and guidance, and I would like to take this
opportunity to merge science, religion, and good
health into one very inspirational and instructional
column based upon another chapter in the Good Book.

Got Vitamin B-12? If the Song of Solomon inspires you,
then you will most certainly be in good hands.

From the Song of Solomon:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
"Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant
fruits; camphor, with spikenard, spikenard and saffron;
calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh
and aloes, with all the chief spices...A fountain of gardens,
a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon. Awake, O
north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that
the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his
garden, and eat his pleasant fruits. Open to me, my love, my
dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my
locks with the drops of the night.

His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips
like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh. His mouth is most
sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and
this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. My beloved is gone
down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the
gardens, and to gather lilies. I am my beloved's, and my beloved
is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.

I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the
valley, and to see whether the vine flourished and the pomegranates
budded. How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!
And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that
goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to
speak. I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.

Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine
flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates
bud forth: there will I give thee my love.

I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my
pomegranate."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
May God bless those wise prophets who without microscopes
or chemical laboratories were divinely inspired to write
about nature's most sensual source of Vitamin B-12.

If the Song of Solomon does not do for you what it does for me,
then consider this information, when pondering the Vitamin B-12
controversy. In 1996, Victor Herbert determined that Vitamin B-12
deficiency is rare among vegans, even though most do not take
supplemental B-12. His landmark work was published in the
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 59(suppl), pp. 1213S-
1222S. Herbert wrote:

"To a great extent, B-12 is recycled from liver bile in the
digestive system...The enterohepatic circulation of vitamin
B-12 is very important in vitamin B-12 economy and
homeostasis...bodies reabsorb 3-5 mcg of bile vitamin B-12.
Because of this, an efficient enterohepatic circulation
keeps the adult vegan, who eats very little vitamin B-12,
from developing B-12 deficiency disease..."

Shabbat Shalom!

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Lost & Dumbfounded

When you view today's photograph, consider this
fact of life...There are approximately 4,700
different mammalian species in the animal kingdom,
and hundreds of millions of different proteins and
hormones in nature. There is only one hormone
exactly alike between two species...a perfect match
like a Medeco key fitting into a Medeco lock. The two
species are human and bovine, and the hormone is the
most powerful growth factor in human and cow bodies.

Milk contains growth hormones, fat, and plenty of calories.
Milk was designed to make infants grow. Blessings to the
act of creation, and that infinitely perfect architectural
plan. Milk hormones do what they were designed to do.
Despite idiotic dairy industry claims, cow's milk was not
designed to make humans lose weight.

Today you are to see the photo of a child who consumes more
than one gallon of milk every day! Click on the following
link to view the results of feeding a 48-pound child
more than 70 pounds of milk each week:

<http://story.news.yahoo.com/photo/050509/481/cal10105090836 >

Tiny URL: <http://tinyurl.com/8fvms >

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

This Makes Milk Sound Delicious!

From page 336 of the May 10, 2005 issue of
Hoard's Dairyman, the National Dairy Farm magazine:

HEADLINE:
"Take Steps Now To Get A Jump On Fly Season"

FARM FLASH:
"It's never too early to start heading off fly
problems, says Virginia Tech extension agent, Sue
Puffenbarger. Start to apply a pour-on fly control
product to all animals including young calves. You
should repeat ever four to six weeks to remain
effective...She also points out that fly tags do
nothing to control flies biting udders. Cleaning up
manure will eliminate breeding areas for flies.
Feeding an oral larvacide to the whole herd may help
control young flies as well. Lastly, she reminds
people to keep good records of products used and cases
of mastitis and pink eye that may be caused by flies."

If that doesn't make milk-drinking sound
udderly disgusting to you, nothing ever will!

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

"Terrible Two" Syndrome

At the age of two, a child is now eating the same foods as
her or his parents. It is amazing what damage can be done
to a young body fifteen hours after eating just one slice
of pizza, or finishing off a hot fudge sundae.

So many two-year-old children go into uncontrollable crying
fits that a label has been placed upon the condition
affecting all so-named brats: "The Terrible Twos."

I received a panic phone call recently from my daughter,
Lizzy. She was babysitting for a neighbor's kids, and it
didn't take me more than a minute to walk around the corner
and save the day.

There I found Lizzy in control of three kids. One was five,
the "screamer" was two, and the youngest was asleep in her
crib.

The five-year-old announced:

"My brother has another earache."

The child was holding his ears, shaking his head and crying.
It seemed to me as if he was unsuccessfully trying to rid
himself of a demon contained within his skull.

I waited with Lizzy and the kids until the young boy tired
from the crying, and after alerting the parents, waited for
them to arrive. By that time, the child was calm, and I left
a few minutes after he went to sleep. The next morning, I
visited my neighbors and gave them a copy of my MILK A-Z
book, with a personal note inserted into the page that
contains this information:

E IS FOR EAR

My chapter on milk-related ear problems contains second
opinions from four respected medical doctors.

"Cow's milk has become a point of controversy among doctors
and nutritionists. There was a time when it was considered
very desirable, but research has forced us to rethink this
recommendation...dairy products contribute to a surprising
number of health problems (including) chronic ear
problems..."

Benjamin Spock, M.D., Child Care, 7th Edition

"Milk allergies are very common in children... They are the
leading cause of the chronic ear infections that plague up
to 40% of all children under the age of six."

Julian Whitaker, M.D., Health & Healing, October, 1998,
Volume 8, No. 10

"If a bottlefed baby has an ear infection, eliminate milk
and dairy products from the child's diet for thirty days to
see if any benefits result...a cause of frequent ear
infections in children is food allergies."

James Balch, MD, Prescription for Nutritional Healing

"Concerning ear infections, you just don't see this painful
condition among infants and children who aren't getting
cow's milk into their systems."

William Northrup, M.D., Natural Health July, 94

If you have a child who is affected with ear pain, or know a
family who is affected by this all-so similar situation,
please share this column with them.

The "terrible twos" coincidentally occurs soon after a child
is weaned from breast milk or milk-based formula onto whole
cow's milk. The chief of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins medical
school, Frank Oski, noted that parents rarely, if ever, make
the connection to milk and dairy consumption.

Two-year-old children are able to communicate pain. Quite
often, parents do everything they can to block out the
piercing cries of their toddlers, while lacking the
wisdom to see.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Vegetarians are Unhealthy for Health Care

Vegetarians are unhealthy for a health care system
which relies upon diseased people for cash flow.

"Type 2 diabetes mellitus is less likely to be a
cause of death in vegetarians than non vegetarians."

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1988

"Mortality from coronary artery disease is
lower in vegetarians than in non vegetarians."

British Medical Journal, 1994

"Breast cancer rates are lower in populations
that consume plant based diets."

American Cancer Society Cancer Facts and Figures,
1994

"Vegetarians have a lower incidence of hypertension
than non vegetarians."

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1994

"Incidence of lung and colorectal cancer is lower in
vegetarians than in non vegetarians."

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 1994

"Vegetarian diets low in fat or saturated fat have
been used successfully as part of comprehensive health
programs to reverse severe coronary artery disease."

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1995

"Vegetarian diets have been successful in arresting
coronary artery disease."

American Journal of Epidemiology, 1995

"Scientific data suggest positive relationships between
a vegetarian diet and reduced risk for several chronic
degenerative diseases and conditions...

Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 1997

Modern health care seems more to be about insurance costs
and cash flow than good health. It can be argued that the
cure for what ails society's financial, health, and spiritual
failings is the adoption of a plant-based diet. Scientific
data published in peer-reviewed journals supports that
conclusion.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

If you are a raw food vegan, this column is not for you.
Your foods do not include artificial (and dangerous) garbage
made by chemists in factories. Your foods are not contained
within colorful packages or wrappers, and do not include
unnatural isolates or thickening agents.

All others take note. If you eat artificial meats that were
constructed to replace real meat in taste and texture, do so
at your own risk. You have been warned. The binding agent for
these tasty treats is carrageenan, which may be harmful to
your health, and may very well be be a key to your future
heart disease, according to Doctor David Gordon.

I spoke with Dr. Gordon on Sunday (Mother's Day). They say
that old generals do not die, they just fade away. The same
might be applied to great men of science and philosophy.
Dr. Gordon fits both descriprions, and speaking to him is a
gift. I'll include his phone number at the end of this column,
should you wish to order his magnificent book.

David Gordon is a cardiovascular physiologist by profession and
a medical historian by avocation. In his 87 years, Dr. Gordon has
worked with some of the great names in medicine, particularly
in the field of hypertension research.

I am impressed by Dr. Gordon's work which reveals this missing
link, so meticulously researched, so brilliantly presented
between heart disease and a substance in milk and in many vegan
foods.

Although carrageenan is extracted from red moss, its structure
is nearly identical to a milk sugar, galactose. Milk sugar,
lactose, is made up of two other sugars, glucose and galactose.
The "molecular tree" or molecular structure of a carrageenan
molecule happens to be, by great coincidence, galactose.

Numerous scientific studies suggest a link between milk
consumption and heart disease. See:

http://www.notmilk.com/h.html

The scientific literature is so filled with supportive
references for that conclusion that one wonders why it
is not universally taught in medical schools.

Dr. Gordon's 207 page book, "Milk and Mortality," cites 428
scientific papers, published in the most respected of peer
reviewed journals. His book includes thirteen charts and
illustrations consisting of meticulously prepared data
which link dairy consumption to heart disease.

Gordon's conclusion is that galactose is toxic to the human
system. Galactose in the form of milk sugar and carrageenan.

There is little debate as to the toxicity of galactose, and its
etiology in cataract formation. Gordon pieces together parts
of a puzzle that point to galactose as being a key factor in
coronary heart disease as well.

The book should be a textbook for medical students. It reads
more like a scientific journal article. Every single page,
without exception, contains documented facts.

"Milk and Mortality" ($25) is published by Gordon Books
(925-443-6213), 567 Amber Court, Livermore California 94550.
ISBN 0-9671605-0-2

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

M is for Mastectomy, she's half the gal she used to be.
O is for the Osteo, her bones are getting weaker.
T is for Thrombosis, her future's getting bleaker.
H is for her Heart which may soon never beat again,
E is for Eating harmful foods, then dosed with medicine.
R is for Radiation, which may prolong her tragic end.

Put them all together and they spell MOTHER!

Most of us wish that moms could live forever and
a day. The pain of her death represents the one true
cutting of the umbilical cord. A suffering end from
heart disease or cancer inflicts enormous emotional
pain and distress upon her loving children.

Why couldn't mom live a life like the mothers on
Okinawa? The average lifespan on those islands
between Taiwan and Japan is 86 years for a woman.
No x-ray machines are necessary because breast cancer
and bone disease are extreme rarities. More people
live healthy active lives over the age of 100 on
Okinawa than in any other place on this planet.
(See "Okinawa Program" by Wilcox, Wilcox, & Suzuki).

What do people living on Okinawa eat? Seven portions per
day of fruits and vegetables. Seven portions per day of
grains. Two portions per day of soy. Essentially, they
eat a plant-based diet.

American moms will be getting their share of cookbooks
today. They'll get boxes of milk chocolate (yeech) and
be wined and dined on restaurant foods that compromise
their arteries and guarantee future suffering.

On the way to mom's house, buy her a fresh fruit basket.
Take her out to dinner at a vegetarian restaurant. Tell
your mother that you love her and do not want to be witness
to pre-mature aging or disease. And most importantly:

Teach her the blessings of NotMilk!

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

KIDS: More Calcium in Fruit Juice Than Milk!

Here's some great news for children and confused moms!
A new scientific study confirms that there is more
bioavailable calcium in fruit juice than there is in
cow's milk or cow's milk-based baby formula.

Scientistas at the University of Valencia in Spain have
demonstrated that fruit juices do a body good. Their
study can be read in the May 4, 2005 issue of the Journal
of Agriculture and Food Chemistry (4;53(9):3721-6).

Perales, et. al, write:

"The ranking of samples (of foods tested) according to calcium
bioavailability depends on the use of solubility or dialyzability
as criterion...when using percentage dialysis, the highest value
corresponded to fruit juices and the lowest to follow-up formulas."

In other words, after your child is weaned (sometime after the
first year of her or his life), dump the milk-based formula
and just say "no" to dairy products. Give your toddler fruit
juices, preferably those made fresh. There are no better vitamin
pills than those made by Mother Nature, and freshly squeezed fruit
juices are the sweetest of her gifts.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Drinking Cow Urine for Good Health

Do you drink:

A) Cow's Blood?
B) Cow's Urine?
C) Cow's Milk?

Each body fluid has fans. Some Maasai of Kenya and
Tanzania drink cow's blood.

Some Indians living in Hyderabad drink cow urine.

Some ignorant ignoramuses living in the United States
drink cow's milk.

These three body fluids have much in common. They come from
diseased animals, and the consumption of each body fluid
results in revulsion among those living in more enlightened
cultures...

The following article appeared on Ananova.com on May 5, 2005:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

"Cow's Urine Health Fad

Drinking cow's urine is the latest fad in a health
conscious Indian city.

Cow's urine is recommended by yoga and homeopathy
experts as a cure for a range of ailments.

The Calcutta Telegraph says sales have gone through
the roof in the city of Hyderabad.

Nirmal Kumar, a meditation and yoga expert, says: 'Earlier,
people felt insulted when I recommended it. Now, not only
my students but their family members, too, consume it.'

Balagopala Swamy, who stocks cow urine at his counter in
Indira Park, added: 'Most of our customers are diabetics
and cancer patients.'

The newspaper says cowshed owners, who now advertise cow's
urine in local newspapers, are laughing all of the way to
the bank.

Ananda Mai said: 'We have been supplying cow urine to select
clients in the past.

But it is only since the last two months that the demand has
grown and even common people are coming in search of it. We
just filter it and sell it in bottles.'"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

The Price of Feed for Wisconsin Cows

Pete Hardin is the owner/editor of The Milkweed, a
monthly pro-dairy newsletter that I subscribe to and
find to be one of my best sources of insider milk
information.

Pete and I talk once each week about many things and
we've developed a friendship that has grown since
1994. Despite the fact that we are on opposite sides
of the fence about important matters (he is a New
York Yankee hater, while I adore the Bronx Bombers),
we still talk sports and other cheesy subjects during
the season.

A few weeks ago, I learned from Peter that this is going
to be a tough, hard year for Wisconsin dairymen. Most
farmers grow a good part of their own cow feed. Fields of
winter alfalfa are harvested in the spring. Alfalfa is
candy to a dairy cow. Filet mignon to a Holstein.

This year's winter alfalfa crop has failed.

Traditionally, feed costs have been quite low, so that
farmers who net only $12-14 for each hundred pounds of
milk produced are able to make ends meet. This year
will be different. The wholesale price of milk has
experienced roller coaster-type movements, but when
expected costs rise, one finds few farms making a
profit, and many farms suffering devastating losses.

In a fiscally conservative America, where the cost of
waging war  is a greater priority than the cost of
subsidizing welfarist farmers, there is little to do
but wait for dairymen to change careers and become real
estate evelopers.

Of course, nothing could please me more than to see farms
close, but there is still the pain factor to good families.
That hurts. Although dairy farm bankruptcies will increase
in Wisconsin as a result of the alfalfa kill, the same
amount of milk will be produced in America. One less
Wisconsin cow means one more California cow. Fewer animals
grazing in Wisconsin fields means more unhappy cows confined
to factory farm herds.

Wisconsin's state department of Agriculture blames the
alfalfa crop kill on global warming followed by winter
freeze. Unprecedented warm January and February weather
included nurturing rain for growing alfalfa. The rain was
followed by ice, which killed the young plants. Over
1 million acres suffered this fate, causing a few hundred
million dollars worth of damage. The cost to replace this
feed will exceed $1 billion. Many Wisconsin farmers will
not recover.

The price of alfalfa has little meaning to New Yorkers (such
as myself), but wholesale alfalfa hay costs have surged 50%,
and this is just May. Farmers who grow their own alfalfa
will now have to add the cost of feed to their operating
budgets. These people are in trouble. Wait until June,
National Dairy month. That's the time of the year when ice
cream warehouse inventories surge. The wholesale price of
milk will not compensate Wisconsin dairymen for their
loss. Each quart of milk produced will cost dairymen
a few more pennies. It will up to unprecedented financial
pain.

It's anybody's guess how commodity markets will respond to
this news, but consumers should be on the lookout for extreme
price shifts over the coming months.

Milkweed readers have a step up on most other dairy farmers.
As the Notmilkman, that allows me to know my enemy better
than he knows himself. If that has any meaning to you,
subscribe!

To subscribe to the Milkweed:
Call: 608-455-2400
or send $40 for a one year subscription to:

The Milkweed, Box 10, Brooklyn, Wisconsin, 53521

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

MILK A to Z

Good news and bad news. Many of you have wanted to order
one or more copies of MILK: A to Z but we ran out of stock!
The Dairy Education Board is happy to report that the
second edition of this easy to read and very convincing best
seller is now back in our warehouse.

The price is $14.95 (plus shipping), and I am going to give
you the contents for free in today's column. However, should
you print the links to each page, those who you must convince
(critical friends and relatives) will be lacking the powerful
and beautifully illustrated book in their hands.

To order, call toll-free: 888-NOT-MILK (888-668-6455)

Here is the perfect Mother's Day gift for that wonderful
lady who once threatened you as a child, "Don't leave the
dinner table until you rink your milk or else your bones
will break!"

Here is the perfect gift for that mom in your life who you
wish to protect from osteoporisis and breast cancer.

http//www.notmilk.com/a.html A is for Allergies
http//www.notmilk.com/b.html B is for Breast Cancer
http//www.notmilk.com/c.html C is for Crohn's
http//www.notmilk.com/d.html D is for Diabetes
http//www.notmilk.com/e.html E is for Ear Infections
http//www.notmilk.com/f.html F is for Fat
http//www.notmilk.com/g.html G is for Growth Hormones
http//www.notmilk.com/h.html H is for Heart Disease
http//www.notmilk.com/i.html I is for Iron Deficiency
http//www.notmilk.com/j.html J is for Juvenile Illness
http//www.notmilk.com/k.html K is for Killer Bacteria
http//www.notmilk.com/l.html L is for Lactose
http//www.notmilk.com/m.html M is for Mad Cow
http//www.notmilk.com/n.html N is for Nasal Congestion
http//www.notmilk.com/o.html O is for Osteoporosis
http//www.notmilk.com/p.html P is for Pesticides/Pollution
http//www.notmilk.com/q.html Q is for Quixote Syndrome
http//www.notmilk.com/r.html R is for Rheumatoid Arthritis
http//www.notmilk.com/s.html S is for Sudden Infant Death
http//www.notmilk.com/t.html T is for Tuberculosis
http//www.notmilk.com/u.html U is for Uterine Cancer
http//www.notmilk.com/v.html V is for Vitamin D-eficiency
http//www.notmilk.com/w.html W is for Wiscowsinitis
http//www.notmilk.com/x.html X is for Xanthene Oxidase
http//www.notmilk.com/y.html Y is for Yin/Yang
http//www.notmilk.com/z.html Z is for Zits

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com

Today (May 3, 2005) is World Asthma Day

Does this sound like an asthma attack?

The patient was only 38 years old.
She was 5 feet 5 inches tall (1.65 meters) and weighed
152 pounds (69 kilograms).

The presence of one drug, Benadryl, was detected
in her blood. Benadryl is an antihistamine, taken
by people who are congested.

The victim's last meal was pizza, and it was eaten at 3 PM.
She died 15 hours later, at 6 AM.

Upon autopsy, some 250 cubic centimeters of undigested
cheese and other food was discovered in her stomach.
That mass was equal to the size of a brick.

From the autopsy (Coroner Case #98-6262ME):

"The lobes of the lungs are light-pink-to-dark-purple with
marked congestion and a large amount of frothy fluid exuding
with pressure. The lumen of the tracheobronchial tree
contains mucus and frothy fluid."

Her lungs were congested. She could not breathe.

"The small and large bowels show congestion...the liver has
a congested appearance... pancreas, congested appearance...
the pyramids of the kidneys are congested... section shows
marked acute congestion...cut sections of the adrenal glands
show acute congestion...a large amount of frothy fluid is
present in the larynx...cut sections of the thyroid gland
show congestion...congestion is noted in the pancreas."

On and on, organ after organ, filled with a glue produced by
the body's defense to this powerful allergen and tenacious
glue. Casein. Eighty percent of milk and cheese protein is
casein.

The victim (Florence Griffith Joyner, AKA "Flo Jo") was
survived by her husband, Al Joyner, and a young daughter.
Flo Jo was best known for having won four medals in the
1988 Olympics (3 gold & 1 silver). She is also known for
having posed for a dairy industry milk mustache ad.

On this World Asthma Day, please let asthma sufferers know
that the congesting effects of milk, cheese, ice cream, and
pizza can often take 12 to 15 hours to bring on an attack
after consumption. Milk and dairy can be deadly poisons to
those who have asthma.

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com